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A dedicated cache for metadata?
This proposal has been accepted as a session.
One Line Summary
A dedicated metadata cache would help distributes file systems and in general should reduce per file system efforts to cache metadata.
Abstract
Currently streaming IO can easily evict metadata from the page cache, unless file systems either bind pages to memory or set up their own buffers.
It can be shown that the object disk layout (hash directories) used by distributed file systems such as FhGFS, Lustre and Cephfs is not optimally handled by underlying file systems (i.e. ext4, xfs and btrfs). Introducing a dedicated configurable generic metadata cache would solve this and other metadata cache issues.
Tags
metadata, cache, distributed file systems, hash directories
Presentation Materials
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Biography
Fraunhofer file system (FhGFS) developer.
Sessions
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- Title: A dedicated cache for metadata?
- Microconference: File and Storage Systems II
- Time: 6:00am
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One Line Summary:
A dedicated metadata cache would help distributes file systems and in general should reduce per file system efforts to cache metadata.
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- Speakers: Bernd Schubert
